Mobile soccer, anyone? Mobile maker Nokia, a leading developer of Java games
and SmallBall.com have announced the
launch of SNAP Mobile Soccer, the latest member in Nokia's fast-growing Java
game portfolio.

Aimed at a target audience of both male and female players age 16 to 40, SNAP
Mobile Soccer is expected to be available through selected cellular phone
service providers by late 2005. A number of Nokia and non-Nokia handsets will
support the game.

SNAP Mobile Soccer players can compete with real people in single matches or
attempt in professional or user-created leagues. And they train, play and watch
the games on their cellphones while on the go, or on PC when at home. Home or
outside, mobile soccer is with you!

SNAP Mobile Soccer, backed by the Nokia SNAP (Scalable Network Application
Package) Mobile platform, helps mobile phone users do much more than just play
their teams against other teams. With SNAP Mobile Soccer, gamers can actually
train individual players to form the best team. Team owners can watch and
appraise every one of their soccer players and their abilities, then train them
based on their unique strengths and weaknesses to create a winning team. With
proper attention to their rising soccer skills, they will soon be competing at
higher and higher levels.

Nokia's Mobile Soccer game is a novel Java game, where mobile soccer players
use "artificial life" technology to train their team members and
position them against other teams in cross-town or worldwide matches. Each
member of your team has the ability to learn distinct football skills and - with
regular practice and personal attention - retain those skills while learning new
and better skills.

"The better you know your players, the better you can train them."
But he cautions that it works both ways: Just as in life, your players must work
to improve their skills or risk losing them. This requires regular practice and
a good dose of personal attention. The more you love your players, the more
they'll return the love by showing their winning ways," says SNAP Mobile
Soccer creator.

Nokia's mobile soccer players can coach their players to kick farther, run
faster, change directions quicker, guard the goal better - these and all the
other specialized skills that go into building a winning team. Fourteen players
are included with each team, and with a nod to the worldwide popularity of
women's soccer, women's teams as well as men's teams are available.

Name your players, customize their uniforms, create your own formations -
SNAP Soccer lets you make all the important team decisions.

Each member of the mobile soccer game team arrives with average playing
skills, but with his own unique "digital DNA." Thoroughly learn each
player and quickly identify the special promise inherent in each member of your
team. Their training and success are in your hands alone. The harder you train
and the smarter you coach them, the faster they develop into the team you always
wanted to create.

Mobile soccer teams can be coached and managed with cellphones or computers,
and matches can be seen on mobile handsets as well as full screen on any
compatible Internet-enabled PC. Your mobile soccer team "lives" on a
server, so you can play opposing teams even while their owners are otherwise
occupied.